The year in ages
1943
The movies of 1943, and how old the leads really were when they hit cinemas.
35average lead age in 1943
15Roddy McDowall in Lassie Come Home
51Basil Rathbone in The Spider Woman
36titles of 1943 on record
43lead Casablanca
Humphrey Bogart was 43
Shadow of a Doubt
37lead The Ox-Bow Incident
Henry Fonda was 37
I Walked with a Zombie
Le Corbeau
37lead The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Roger Livesey was 37
33lead Obsession
Clara Calamai was 33
Day of Wrath
Heaven Can Wait
37lead Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Lon Chaney Jr. was 37
Phantom of the Opera
For Whom the Bell Tolls
38lead Der Fuehrer's Face
Clarence Nash was 38
20lead The Seventh Victim
Kim Hunter was 20
Sahara
38lead Five Graves to Cairo
Franchot Tone was 38
28lead Jane Eyre
Orson Welles was 28
Son of Dracula
15lead Lassie Come Home
Roddy McDowall was 15
Hangmen Also Die!
The Song of Bernadette
35lead The Leopard Man
Dennis O'Keefe was 35
Batman
Red Hot Riding Hood
27lead The Outlaw
Jack Buetel was 27
51lead The Spider Woman
Basil Rathbone was 51
Journey into Fear
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
The More the Merrier
Titanic
Carnival of Sinners
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
35lead A Corny Concerto
Mel Blanc was 35
50lead The Ghost Ship
Richard Dix was 50
43lead This Land Is Mine
Charles Laughton was 43
